Pearl Harbor : from infamy to greatness / Craig Nelson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nelson, Craig, 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941.

Hawaii.

Physical Description:

x, 532 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Scribner, 2016.

Summary:

The America we live in was not born on July 4, 1776, but on December 7, 1941, when an armada of Japanese warplanes supported by aircraft carriers, destroyers, and midget submarines suddenly attacked the United States, killing 2,403 men and forcing America's entry into World War II. Author Craig Nelson maps the road to war, beginning in 1914 with the laying of the keel of the USS Arizona at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, following Japan's leaders as they lurched into ultranationalist fascism, and providing a blow-by-blow account from both the Japanese and American perspectives. Backed by 5 years of research, Nelson delivers all the terror, chaos, violence, tragedy, and heroism of the attack in stunning detail and offers surprising conclusions about the tragedy's unforeseen and resonant consequences that linger even today. -- Adapted from book jacket.

Contents:

Dreadnoughts and holystones

The roads to war. Conceiving the inconceivable ; A sinister wind ; Autumn 1941 ; November ; December 6

Strike! From the air ; Pearl Harbor ; Describing the indescribable ; Infamy ; Resurrection

Victory. Vengeance ; Triumph ; Legacy

Appendix 1. Judgment and controversy

Appendix 2. The Medal of Honor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (483-498) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Nelson, Craig, 1955- author. Pearl Harbor

ISBN:

9781451660494 :

1451660499

OCLC:

928480601